Most people know Juneteenth. They know it’s a holiday now. They know there’s a cookout somewhere. They know they don’t have to go to work. But the woman called the Grandmother of Juneteenth — a lot of people couldn’t even tell you her story. In 1939, Opal Lee was…
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Marc Lamont Hill Office Hours: Dr. Roger Davidson on Juneteenth, the Civil War, and What Freedom Actually Means
Marc Lamont Hill hosted historian and Bowie State University Associate Professor Dr. Roger A. Davidson Jr. for an Office Hours deep dive into the history America oversimplifies every time it goes on sale at Target. The conversation ranged from the military mechanics of how emancipation actually happened, to Lincoln’s real record, to…